The annual changes range from a $55 million increase for Newark Public Schools to a $55 million decrease for Jersey City, which is losing state dollars because of its strengthened local tax base. (Find out how much Murphy proposed for your district in the search tool below.)

The governor’s $9 billion investment in K-12 schools increases funding by $336 million, but only 64% of districts will receive more money. A small fraction of districts, just 12, are flat funded. The rest are losing aid as part of a controversial, years-long reallocation of state money.

Murphy, at an event Thursday in Bound Brook, focused on the school funding winners — districts long considered losers because they received less aid than the state funding formula said they were owed.

“Bound Brook was one of those afterthought districts,” the Democratic governor said, noting he’s helped increase its funding by 124%.

The state regularly underfunded its school aid formula by more than $1 billion a year under former Gov. Chris Christie. Murphy and other top Democrats have worked to close that gap since he took office in 2018.

The governor proposes more funding for 371 districts in 2020-21 and plans to give nearly 200 districts a funding increase of 10% or more. Nearly 90 districts would see an increase of $1 million or more.

“Our goal has been to pull public education out of this deep hole,” Murphy said. "And as I mentioned, we’re making real progress.”

But that progress comes in part from what critics say is effectively robbing Pemberton to pay Paulsboro.

For years, the state gave every district at least the same funding as it did the year before, regardless of whether its enrollment declined or the local tax base grew. But state lawmakers voted in 2018 to start phasing out the funding those districts would have lost.

The result this year is 194 districts will lose a collective $155 million. However, Murphy wants to create a $50 million emergency fund those districts can tap into if they can prove the money is needed and they are trying to reduce their reliance on state aid.